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I came up with elements of Webb

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because I have seen in all of our articles
and videos

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that we kept mentioning that we used gold
and beryllium for these mirrors,

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that there are
all these special materials, but

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we didn't really explain why we used them.

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So I wanted to get sort of into the nitty
gritty of the material science

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to explore why these were
and then actually just demonstrate

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why these materials behave
the way they do.

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I got a piece! I got a piece!

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Not only was it

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a, I think, cool science adventure for you
because you did a lot of research.

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It was an adventure
just going out and capturing everything.

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That's the great,
beautiful Salt Lake back there.

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Okay.

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We just got attacked,
but they're still swimming around us.

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These little gnats.

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I will say that my proudest moment
was being able

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to go to the beryllium mine.

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That took a lot of work to get to.

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We found the beryllium shop,
and then we got them

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to talk to their people
and then convincing those people

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to let us fly into Salt Lake City and
actually go to the frickin beryllium mine.

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Was this has all been mined out.

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So we've had like so much latitude
in this project, which we're very lucky.

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But yeah,
so we were able to hire a drone operator,

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which was so cool.

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And so he was able to get perspectives
on this huge hole in the ground

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that we would never otherwise
be able to see

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and actually get like a really good
perspective on like just how massive it is

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and really

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how much rock you have to remove to get
even the smallest amounts of beryllium.

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COVID

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just wiped this whole thing out
because we were planning to go

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to a lot of different places
and then when COVID hit and we couldn't

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go anywhere, she did.

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I went to say like 80%
of the whole production at your house.

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Yeah.

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And you did some amazing stuff
at your house.

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And we're recording.

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But first
I have to make some distilled water,

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but first
I have to make some distilled water.

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It was fun.

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I mean, it made me take a little more time
to think about what I was talking about.

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And I actually think
they ultimately made a better video.

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I already see two pieces.

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One of the great things about
this job is that, you know,

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we meet a lot of different people,
you learn a lot of stuff,

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but you're also able to go into places

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and see things that, you know,
nobody else gets to see.

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And I think the Element series
is really one of those projects

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that we were just able to go
and into different places.

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Sort of my philosophy on
life is just start doing the things

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that you want to do.

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You're never going to have the gear
that you want.

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You're never necessarily
going to have the time that you want.

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But like try to
figure it out and just, just

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do it.